Kimberly B. Gill

Ph.D., M.A.

Department of Primary Appointment:
School of Medicine
Military and Emergency Medicine
Title
Senior Research Scientist III
Location: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Research Interests:
Social/Behavioral Science; Social Epidemiology; Public Health and Healthcare Emergency Management; Disaster Science and Medicine; Community Recovery and Resilience; Risk and Adaptation.
Email
kimberly.gill.ctr@usuhs.edu
Office Phone
(301) 400-4217
Department Website
National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH)

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2012
M.A., Applied Psychology, Columbia University Teachers College, New York, NY, 2001
B.A., Psychology, Cum Laude, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1999

Biography

Kimberly B. Gill, Ph.D. is a sociologist with 20 years of research, evaluation, teaching and applied experience in the public health aspects of disaster. Dr. Gill serves as Senior Research Scientist III for the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Pilot Program at the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) / Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement for Military Medicine (HJF) in Bethesda, MD.

Prior to this role, Dr. Gill served as Research Associate Scientist for the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. There she worked on COPEWELL, Composite of Post-Event Well-Being, an evidence-based model and collection of tools that address community resilience as it pertains to disasters.

Earlier in her career, Dr. Gill served as the Program Manager for the Center for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) at Columbia University’s School of Public Health, National Center for Disaster Preparedness and as the Assistant Director of the Office of Mental Health Disaster Preparedness and Response at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She received a M.A. in Applied Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Delaware.

Representative Bibliography

Kendra, J., Clay, L., Gill, K., Trivedi, J., Marlowe, V., Aguirre, B., ... & Links, J. (2021). Community Resilience: Toward a Framework for an Integrated, Interdisciplinary Model of Disaster. Natural Hazards Review, 22(4), 04021049.

Penta, S., Kendra, J., Marlowe, V., Gill, K. (2021). A disaster by any other name?: COVID‐19 and support for an All‐Hazards approach. Risks Hazards Crisis Public Policy. 1– 26. https://doi.org/10.1002/rhc3.12213

Schoch-Spana, M., Gill, K., Hosangadi, D., Slemp, C., Burhans, R., Zeis, J., Carbone, E., & Links, J. (2019) “Top-Down and Bottom-Up Measurement to Enhance Community Resilience to Disasters.” American Journal of Public Health, 109(S4), S265-S267; https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305151.

Schoch-Spana, M., Gill, K., Hosangadi, D., Slemp, C., Burhans, R., Zeis, J., Carbone, E.G., & Links, J. (2019). “The COPEWELL Rubric: A Self-Assessment Toolkit to Strengthen Community Resilience to Disasters.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(13), 2372; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16132372.

Clay, L., Papas, M., Gill, K., & Abramson, D. (2018). Factors Associated with Continued Food Insecurity among Households Recovering from Hurricane Katrina. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(8), 1647, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15081647.

Kendra, J., Clay, L., & Gill, K. (2018). “Resilience and Disasters.” In Handbook of Disaster Research (pp. 87-107). Springer, Cham.

Links, J., Schwartz, B., Lin, S., Kanarek, N., Mitrani-Reiser, J., Sell, T. Watson, C. Ward, D., Slemp, C., Burhans, R., Gill, K.; . . . Kendra, J. (2017). “COPEWELL: A Conceptual Framework and System Dynamics Model for Predicting Community Functioning and Resilience After Disasters.” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 1-11. doi:10.1017/dmp.2017.39